ONLINE APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS FOR COLORING BIN PACKING PROBLEM

As one of the constrained bin packing problems (BPP), coloring BPP has many important applications such as multi processor real time scheduling, etc . An approximation algorithm, called KC A , to solve the coloring BPP is proposed in this paper. It classifies the inputs first and then packs the objects in the same class with classical bin packing algorithm A . Also given are a lower bound of the worst case asymptotic performance ratio of KC A and analysis of the asymptotic worst case, average case performance ratio of the KC A algorithm when A is NF, FF, BF or WF . Finally the experimental results are given. KC FF shows a better result in the experiment.